Grand Designs: A Library Inside a Red Phone Box

Now, this is a clever use of a disused red phone box in a quaint village in Somerset, England. They’ve turned it into a small lending library.

From the Guardian:

When the mobile library stopped visiting, it was a blow for the villagers of Westbury-sub-Mendip. And when they found out they could lose their beloved red phone box, there was something of an outcry.

Happily a bright spark in the Somerset village (population 800) hatched a clever plan to tackle both difficulties. Why not buy the phone box and use it to set up a mini-library?

Today, the small but perfectly formed Westbury book box was doing a brisk trade. Adults were bringing in thrillers, romances and true-crime books, leaving them on the four wooden shelves and choosing another to take home. Young book fans were hunting around in the children’s section – a big red box on the floor – for Roald Dahl and Horrid Henry favourites.

Read the read of the article here.

Let’s just hope no one abuses the honor system.

I suspect we’ll start seeing many clever uses for these old red phone boxes as BT tries to fob them off instead of keeping them in service.